Amit Shah is the senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has been the Union Home Minister since 2019. He has also been serving as the Union Minister of Co-operation since 2021. Shah was the president of the BJP from 2014 to 2020. He has been a Lok Sabha member from the Gandhinagar constituency of Gujarat since 2019. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Shah won the Gandhinagar seat by defeating Congress candidate Dr CJ Chavda with a margin of 5,57,014 votes. He was the Minister of State for Home, Law and Justice, Prison, Border Security, Civil Defence, Excise, Home Guards, Transport, Prohibition, Gram Rakshak Dal, Police Housing, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs in Gujarat in the Narendra Modi-led government from 2002 to 2012. Shah won the Sarkhej Assembly constituency in Gujarat in 1997 (bypoll), 1998, 2002 and 2007. He also represented the Naranpura Assembly seat from 2012 to 2017. Shah also served as the Rajya Sabha member from 2017 to 2019. Amit Shah is again contesting from the Gandhinagar constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
Read MoreShah also mocked at the prime ministerial ambitions of the various opposition leaders present at the Brigade Parade Ground rally.
In his first public rally after recovering from swine flu, Amit Shah slammed Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government and said it would bite the bust in the 2019 general elections.
Malda district BJP president Sanjit Mishra said Shah will land at Bagdogra airport from where he will take a helicopter to Malda. He would reach Narayanpur, where a temporary helipad has been constructed for landing of his helicopter.
Over the last few years, the BJP has emerged as the main opposition in the state with a significant show in rural polls and by-elections.
Shah, who has just recovered from swine flu, is scheduled to address a rally in Malda on Tuesday.
The BJP has previously accused the state government of putting hurdles in the political programmes of its top leaders, including Shah, by denying or delaying permission for holding them.
State BJP leaders feel Shah's rallies will help the party give a "befitting reply" to the Trinamool Congress' January 19 mega show.
Last week, the BJP had submitted a fresh application before the government, seeking permission to hold a ‘Ganatantra Bachao Yatra’, after it failed to get clearance from the Supreme Court for its proposed rath yatra.
BJP President Amit Shah has been discharged from AIIMS Delhi where he was admitted for his treatment of swine flu, BJP leader Anil Baluni told media.
"Amit Shah has got fever due to panic. He panicked as some MLAs (of the Congress) have come back. If he topples the Congress-JD(S) government, then he will have vomitting and loose motions. That is why he got swine fever," he said at a party event.
A team of doctors are monitoring his condition under the supervision of AIIMS director Randeep Guleria.
BJP president Amit Shah took to Twitter to inform that he is suffering from H1N1 flu is also known as swine flu.
The BJP leaders will use these press conferences to spread the messages given by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and party’s national president Amit Shah during the National Convention organised recently at historic Ramlila Maidan in Delhi.
Speaking on the occasion, AAP leader Gopal Rai said: "The Congress has no presence in Delhi. Only AAP is capable of defeating the BJP in the upcoming elections."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, chief ministers of BJP ruled states were among those attending the important event ahead of the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.
The Lok Sabha elections will be a battle of two ideologies, BJP president Amit Shah said on Friday, asserting his party stands for cultural nationalism and development of poor, while the rivals have come together merely for power.
The BJP chief described the constitution amendment bill as one of the most important legislations passed by Parliament.
The party has invited its all elected members, ranging from those in local elections to its MPs, besides organisational leaders from across the country, for the meeting.
The decision to give 10 per cent reservation to poor youths from general category will open a door for their golden future, Amit Shah said.
Speaking before Shah, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis said, "The party president will decide what to do with the Shiv Sena and the proposed alliance. But the BJP should aim to win 40 out of 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state."
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